1. A fine, very thin fabric, such as gauze.
2. Tissue paper.
3. A soft, absorbent piece of paper used as toilet paper, a handkerchief, or a towel.

With that in mind, I think whoever thought of the print should have used the term “tissue” instead.

It doesn’t end there. “Less napkins. More plants. More planet.”

Uhum, let’s revisit astronomy. Is it really possible to increase the number of planets in that case? What I learned ages ago was that, people are trying to explore other planets hoping there’d be soil in there to plant more. And if we plant more, there’d be more resources.

On the other hand, some paper bags only have the print “recycle” instead of Starbucks’ campaign to “Reuse. Then Recycle”. Finally, they made sense. To reuse is often thought as to recycle. In general, reusing is better than recycling.

And while I was finishing my dough and pulling my last sip, I glanced once again at the most sensible question from the statement table:

I love the statement table too. I’m not a Starbucks fan, I don’t even go there but everything looks and smells so good when you enter the store LOL. Coffee makes me vomit for some reason and all of Starbucks products are not exempted. Didn’t pass my tastes.

And I enjoyed your blog even if you were just passing time in there LOL.

whoa! very creative. i’ve seen one of those tables in starbucks but never even read any of those phrases. im impressed and i agree that the line “less napkis, more plants. more planet” needs to be rephrased or maybe totally changed.

So that’s what that table is for! I never really paid attention to it before…
Here’s my Starbucks story: Whenever the cashier would ask for my name, Garandee will say “GARANDO!!”. When I get my coffee, almost always, I find “Gerardo” written on it. 😀

I was in a Starbucks in Madrid last week and the grammar mistake on the napkins disappointed me. I’m sure that the word “fewer napkins” wouldn’t have taken away any power to their campaign. English should be used properly and can be used in many clever ways.

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Marhaba! That's "hello" in Arabic. I am an expatriate based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE). I started writing about my adventures and misadventures few months before arriving here at winter of 2008. I have 2 cats and a dog who live harmoniously together. I am also surrounded by kindhearted, crazy, funny and indescribable humans!
I was a dormant blogger for almost 3 years because of countless reasonable justifications like watching football, postgraduate studies, sleeping, traveling, caring for the world, and more! :) I am just so happy that I am back! It is never too late to catch up with the people and things we really care about. Feel free to look around.

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